Boardgames To Go 238 - Podcast 20th Anniversay (with Dave Arnott)
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Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. When did you start listening to podcasts? Do you remember your first ones? For me it was the first one ever about boardgames and the first about movies. That was Geekspeak and Reel Reviews. Even though I'm not so into wine, Grape Radio was another super early one for me. The medium was new, the tech was unfamiliar, and I loved the chance to listen to interesting audio on my commute, about unique subjects. Although those earliest shows seemed to use a lot of fancy, expensive equipment, I...
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Boardgames To Go 237 - BGG Hall of Fame (with Scott Alden) plus EsCon report
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Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Opener: Everyone knows Aldie, right? Feels like we do. Scott Alden, the man behind BoardGameGeek, is one creative entrepreneur, let me tell ya. Anyone could've thought to make a central website where boardgamers come for information and community, but it takes more than a good idea for something to be reality. For 25 years Aldie has been adding features, listening to comments, growing the hobby, and doing way more than most to enhance boardgaming around the world. I can't believe it's been...
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Boardgames To Go 236 - End of One Year, Beginning of Another
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Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. I've been doing this podcast for twenty years! I never would've guessed this in the beginning. The actual "birthday" for the podcast is March 3rd, so focus on the anniversary then. But for now, this is the start of Season 21. Blackjack! Despite my teasing of Davebo during the Davecember episodes about putting too much stock in games-played data...I actually keep track of it myself. I'm not 100% accurate about it, but I'm probably 95% in recent years. (Earlier years weren't as detailed or accurate.) These days...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (Dave Arnott)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Bringing our Davecember to a fitting close, I welcome back Dave Arnott. He was the guy on my podcast earlier...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember (with DaveO)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. We're winding down now. DaveO is one of the remaining Davids that's still local to me. Local enough. He's near San...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with deacondavid)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. David Reed claims to be our oldest Dave in the collection, but we're all reasonably close. Something about the...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with loofish)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. The next David comes to us from a different part of North Carolina, and explains how the recent hurricane...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with David Harding)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Another designer joins us, and he's in the game publishing world, too. David Harding of Elevenses, One Zero One, Matcha...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (with David Corbin)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. David Corbin joins us next, doubling our count of North Carolina based Davids...but he's not our last. He...
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Boardgames To Go 235D - Davecember 2024 (David Thompson)
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I know a lot of Daves, and many of them have been on my podcast. With that in mind they're helping me celebrate a new holiday, Davecember, when each of them joins for me a mini-episode sprinkled randomly this month into your feed. I'll ask each of them similar questions, and each David also gets a bit of time to bring up something they want to share with my listeners. Enjoy! Please join us on the where you can chat online with other podcast listeners. Next is David Thompson, best known as the co-designer of the Undaunted series, War Chest, Resist, Sniper Elite,...
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Opener: Sea Salt & Paper
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I'm a pretty positive guy, and I hope that normally comes through on my podcast. While I have distinct preferences for the kinds of games I play, I try to be willing to play most things. Or at least, when I turn something down I try to be kind about it. It helps to have been around long enough, wearing those preferences on my sleeve. My friends know the kind of big, plastic-filled, multi-hour fantasy fighting games that aren't for me.
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However, it IS true that I have an inner monologue, and it can be frustrated with the aspects of our hobby that I don't like. Even worse, I think those aspects are detrimental to its wide enjoyment and acceptance with many people. You know how I open every episode by saying my podcast is about "family strategy boardgames"? Because that's what I like best, and it's what's most important. They're most important to me, and I'd say the wider success through mass market channels (Target, Amazon), plus increased role of our hobby on the culture...well, those things emphasize that family strategy games are generating the most joy for players and the most success for the industry.
Especially on the Discord server, sometimes I'd be more open with those frustrations. Sometimes I just needed to vent a bit. At one point we made a separate discussion channel within that server just for #curmudgeon grumblings. Guess what? It has ended up being some of those most active discussions! Along the way it was suggested that one podcast episode be devoted to the same venting, and here we have it: The Curmudgeon Show. Two volunteers from Discord agreed to help me on this project, and the result is the final episode for this year, season 19.
Take it in the spirit it was intended, and I always look forward to comments.
Closer: I worked at making 2023 a better year for my hobby, and am so pleased that it worked! [That's not very curmudgeonly! -ed]
-Mark